PIL seeking removal of blueline buses filed

New Delhi, July 9 (UNI) In the wake of mounting number of casualties in blueline bus accidents in the city, a public interest litigaton (PIL) has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking removal of all public transport buses which are more than three years old.

The petition was filed by lawyers Sugrive Dubey and Namita Roy seeking to stay the plying of old buses in Delhi and asked for introduction of new buses.

The petitioners have contended that the Government of NCT failed to provide a good public transport system and so it should now handover the same to some authentic multinational company and should be taken to task for any casualty caused due to negligence.

The lawyers alleged about 100 people had been killed in the year 2006 alone by blueline buses and as many as 1529 buses were involved in fatal accidents between April 2002 to December 2006.

These buses were still plying on roads and in about 28 cases, the same buses have caused accidents more than once, the petitioners added.

According to the traffic police, the Transport department had suspended the licences of just 488 buses between April 2003 and 2006. Ninety per cent buses voilated the directions of the High Court which directed them to ply in the lane and baned overtaking and overspeeding.

However, the buses continue to blow horns and ply at high speed overlooking all the traffic signal norms and yet the Delhi traffic police is silent on the issue, the lawyers alleged.

UNI